Marco Rubio as vice president: the Bilderberg conspiracy

Mitt Romney isn’t very far into the vice presidential selection process. But according to a dedicated band of conspiracy theorists, the pick is all but a lock: Sen. Marco Rubio.

That’s the current thinking among a worldwide collection of activists who are obsessed with the secretive Bilderberg Group, an alternating roster of global power players who loom as large — if not larger — in the online fever swamps of the fringe as the Trilateral Commission or the Council on Foreign Relations.

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The Bilderberg Group, which takes its name from the Dutch hotel where it first gathered in 1954, exists solely to bring together between 100 and 150 titans of politics, finance, military, industry, academia and media mostly from North America and Western Europe once a year to discuss world affairs.

Yet in the netherworld of conspiracy theory, the group is part of an insidious corporate-globalist scheme. And this year, the speculation holds, the Bilderberg Group is set to hold its annual meeting in the coming weeks at a Northern Virginia hotel where, among other things, they likely will select Rubio as Romney’s running mate.

Paranoid? Perhaps.

But like any good conspiracy theory, there’s just enough there to stoke questions. John Edwards’s speech to the Bilderberg Group’s 2004 meeting in Stresa, Italy, reportedly helped clinch his selection as that year’s Democratic vice presidential candidate. And Jim Johnson, the man who chaired that vice presidential selection process and initially was tasked with spearheading Barack Obama’s 2008 search for a running mate, is a leading Bilderberg member, while prominent Romney advisers including Robert Kagan and Vin Weber have attended past meetings, as have Bill Clinton, Donald Rumsfeld and top finance, media and tech executives.

“These are influential folks — and they’ve all got friends in American politics — so if they see somebody that impresses them or doesn’t, I expect that they would pass that view on,” said Weber, a former Minnesota congressman who has attended two Bilderberg meetings. “But I would tell all of those bloggers and protestors to save their outrage for a real conspiracy, because this is just a conference.”

That assessment is rejected as pure spin by the international community of Bilderberg obsessives. They’re convinced that the meeting is ground zero in an worldwide plot by big banks, mainstream media, defense contractors and governments to suppress working people around the world.

This year, anti-Bilderberg activists are planning an “OccupyBilderberg” protest outside the Westfield Marriott in Chantilly, Va., where they believe the group will hold its conference May 31-June 3.

That was enough for the popular anti-government website Infowars to conclude in a blaring headline: “Washington Post Suggests Bilderberg Group to Pick Romney’s Running Mate,” while a website called the Globalist Report also relied on Kamen’s column for a post asking: “will Mitt Romney be attending the next Bilderberg Group meeting?”

Radio host Alex Jones, a hero on the anti-government fringe who also runs Infowars, this month told the Russian government-funded cable network Russia Today that at their upcoming meeting Bilderberg attendees will decide on “wars with Iran, ways to censor the Internet … how to sell the public on more banker bailouts” and “how to ram through carbon taxes.”

But the most immediate issue on the agenda, he said, will be a decision on “Should the elite get behind Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? Both men are bought and paid for by the same financial interests, and so the discussion will be which candidate can basically con the American people into laying down to tyranny for another four years.”

So there really is a bilderberg group, eh? I have heard the name here and there through the years, like the tri-lateral commission, black helicopters, etc. I never dug into it, because I just thought it was some paranoid nonsense from the right. Now I find out that there is indeed a group of real people with names I am familiar with.

Occasionally I have heard stories about "taking over the world", by one person or group or another. My reaction to all those type of ravings has always been, why?

Why would any person or group that was rich enough, and powerful enough, to be in a position to even think about "taking over the world" want to do it? For what purpose?

Money? They have more than they can ever spend.

Power? To accomplish what, exactly?

The only person I ever heard of who hoped to conquer the world had a definite purpose. The name was Hitler, and the purpose was to exterminate all races except the master race, his race, the so-called "Aryans"

That would be a valid reason for wanting to "take over the world". But nobody that I am aware of has plans or ambitions to accomplish that.

But I'll keep an eye out for any black helicopters I see coming my way.

It has nothing to do with a conspiracy of any kind. While peoples homes are being foreclosed on, their cars repossessed, living on food bank supplies. these people are blowing millions on mansions, $100,000 cars, being catered to by millions of illegal aliens, they want to keep things exactly like they are. They couldn't care less about illegal immigration, greenhouse gases, the EPA. They just want to keep the gravy train on the tracks as long as they can.

But I'll keep an eye out for any black helicopters I see coming my way.

You might not see the black helicopters, but congress just approved drones to fly above you and to keep an survalence eye on exactly what your doing.

I'm not worried about that. When i first started posting, Denmark Vesey, one of the hysterical leftist morons who was outraged by my "racist" comments posted that he had reported me to the FBI. He wrote that at least 3 or 4 different occasions, swearing he was going to have me arrested. That is now nuts the leftists get sometimes.

I never did hear from the FBI. They probably ignored the little punk, if he ever even really did report me for engaging in perfectly legal activity, namely posting blogs on politico. But if they did run a quick check to confirm my identity and background, they would have seen that I belong to no groups, own no guns, have no police record, etc.

In other words, an American citizen who expreses his opinions in online forums. Perfectly legal. But to the mind of this little sicko, evil "racist" opinions should be grounds for arrest and jail. Typical of the left. Disagree with them and they will do whatever they can to shut you up.

If I was on Politico's Board of Directors, this story would warrant me calling a meeting and asking for John Harris' resignation. How could Politico put a poorly sourced conspiracy theory as the main headline? That isn't irresponsible journalism, it's just lazy. While other organizations are covering the shifting poll numbers for the POTUS candidates or covering the local, House, and Senate elections, Politico is running a main story on a conspiracy.

Certainly, we can overanalyze this article: (1) a subversive group whose membership, the article implies. are foreign and domestic members of the 1% are selecting a Republican running mate. (2) there seems to be an effort to plant in the subconscious of the reader an analogy between Rubio and Edwards (who, it turns out, was nothing more than a charlatan). But, such is an overanalysis.

This is nothing more than an embarassment. The gravitas and high standing Politico is seeking for the 2012 Presidential election is undermined by this article. It simply proves that Politico will never be on par with the well respected journalistic sites. It proves that Politico is, and until such time as there is change in the editorial staff, an entity who can't get out of the way of its amateurism.

Better to remain a media persona and solicit donations from her acolytes. Sarah is a joke to the vast majority of voters. detractors won't have to throw anything at her......her babbling, incoherent blathering is on tape....repeatedly.

Obama is a blithering idiot without his precious, and needed, teleprompter. His constant use of the Teleprompter indicates a LACK OF ABILITY to maintain a train of thought or understanding of the subject matter.

Obama has shown (to those who can see) that he has ZERO skills in Math, Engineering, or complex problem solving.

His actions in negotiating, being on time, preparing budgets (lack thereof), and the interplay of 'American' people, industry, and government, show deep flaws in his abilities.

Barrack is skilled in oratory that gives the listener 'the appearance' of knowledge and intelligence. He is so blinded by his demons and ideology that he simply doesn't see the 'options' on the table.

There are 'so many examples' of this charlatans egregious disregard for PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT and EXCUSES on why he does it, that there is not enough space on this blog to print them all.

This article and its headline are an embarrassment to Politico. Once again they tip their hand as to which way they lean politically and forego any attempt at true neutrality. To repeat such baseless speculation destroys their credibility.